This is much easier if you have a lot of Anthracite. This is much more clean burning than Bitumen. The US doesn't have a lot of Anthracite but stack scrubbers and the like can make coal a cheaper and more efficient and relatively clean source of power.

So it is not a good idea for anyone to accept China's NEA as a source of really accurate information on coal power because that can change overnight with the closing of Anthracite mines.

This is much easier if you have a lot of Anthracite. This is much more clean burning than Bitumen. The US doesn't have a lot of Anthracite but stack scrubbers and the like can make coal a cheaper and more efficient and relatively clean source of power.

Anthracite and Bitumen coal burn the same way, Wake. They are both carbon. They both burn just as cleanly in modern coal burning facilities.

Wake wrote:So it is not a good idea for anyone to accept China's NEA as a source of really accurate information on coal power

It's not a good idea because it's Chinese government propaganda.

Wake wrote:because that can change overnight with the closing of Anthracite mines.